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even the fishermen look upon them with no unfriendly feelings. 
Almost yearly during the past decade I have one or more records 
of occurrences, having drifted hither during heavy tides. In 1896 
a coastguardsman killed a specimen sleeping on the beach with 
his sword-stick. Several have been shot. On Nov. 38rd, 1891, a 
Seal seized a codling fast to a line against the Yarmouth jetty. 
Two hooks fastened to it; in endeavouring to land it on the beach 
the ‘‘snoods”’ broke, and the animal got away. 
Grey Seat (Halicherus gryphus). R.—Two were killed in the 
Wash in 1881, where the species undoubtedly occurs occasionally. 
A young female, drifting into the neighbourhood, came up the river, 
and was shot on Breydon, Nov. 28th, 1882; it is now in the 
Norwich Museum. I feel certain another was killed in December, 
1897, which I did not see. 
([Watrus (Trichechus rosmarus). ?.—The claim for this species 
to be included in the local list is doubtful. ‘‘ Although now con- 
fined to the icy seas of the Arctic Circle, the Walrus was probably 
not uncommon on our shores in times long past. The skull is 
sald to have been found in the peat near Ely.”* On May Ist, 
18938, the fore part of a Walrus skull with one tusk in place was 
dredged up in a shrimper’s trawl off Yarmouth. The tusk, 11 in. 
long, has since been halved lengthwise, and has the appearance 
of dirty marble. There are a few barnacles still attached to 
the skull. ] 
Atuantic Rieaur Wuaue (Balena biscayensis). A.— Under 
the name of B. mysticetus, the Pagets refer to ‘‘a small one taken 
near Yarmouth, July 8th, 1784.”’ It is highly improbable that 
this species has ever occurred here, and the Whale referred. to 
was doubtless the Atlantic Right Whale (B. biscayensis). For- 
merly several Yarmouth vessels were engaged in the Whale 
fishery, and there yet remain several jaw-bones of this animal 
fixed in various parts of the town, one or two being built in gable 
walls, and two are to be seen planted as arches in gardens. One 
standing in the gas-house premises was there when the South 
Denes were yet unenclosed; it was the custom for those who 
rambled thither on Sundays to pass through it. Several aged 
inhabitants still boast of having done so. 
Common Rorquat (Balenoptera musculus). A.—As B. 
* Southwell, ‘Seals and Whales of the British Seas,’ p. 35. 
